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Child Support

Yes, there's a reason.

States have a "Constitutional Duty to Protect Taxpayers". That's why they go after bio-dads for child support. It's not a moral issue with the state, it's an economic issue.

no one that argues from your position has yet to come up with a reason that why the rest of society should have to support your kid.
 
Which pretty much every study backs up.
more so fathers in their lives.

kids are much more successful if there is a father in the picture than not.

I agree, but you cannot force a man to be in the child's life, even if you can force him to pay support.
 
3. If a woman claims to have been impregnated by a man and the DNA test confirms it, she should have to have the father's permission in writing before seeking an abortion.

No, no, no, no, no, no, no. No man should ever be able to force a woman to gestate and deliver against her will.
 
No, no, no, no, no, no, no. No man should ever be able to force a woman to gestate and deliver against her will.

Any man has a right to defend his offspring, once his sperm combines with her egg it isn't "her body" any more, it's a new life, and it's just as much his as it is hers.

If she doesn't want to gestate and deliver she should abstain.
 
yep the child dies no harm there at all :roll:.

you probably shouldn't be talking about other people missing things when you constantly swing and miss in these threads that you start at least
once a month.

Straw Man. Abortion is alreadyvan accepted legal choice

Swing and miss again ludin... :lol:
 
Just pay your Child Support and stop whining about your own lack of responsibility. Good Grief:roll:
 
Exactly right. That is my argument. Equal rights.

I do understand that. Just the same, the rights of the child and unborn child should come first.

In my view, rather than taking fathers off the hook for responsibility, we should put mothers back on it.

To use equal rights as a means of eliminating responsibility is wrong on so many levels.
 
Any man has a right to defend his offspring, once his sperm combines with her egg it isn't "her body" any more, it's a new life, and it's just as much his as it is hers.

If she doesn't want to gestate and deliver she should abstain.

Can anyone have consent over what you do with YOUR body? Your medical care? (assuming you are not a minor or incompetent to make such decisions)
 
Agreed. Anyone that supports the legalization of abortions and doesn't support this is a hypocrite.

Odd connection, no deep inner issues here... get an abortion and you don't pay.

I suppose if you mean a woman can get an abortion even if the man wants to keep the fetus- you may have an issue.

Seems many who hate abortions also demand men support the child, sooo not sure if the two are connected.

I'd opine anyone who thinks women use abortions as birth control should be quite happy with men supporting any children they conceive.

Or do like we did in the days before easy access to BC pills (and in this day and age of STD's penicillin doesn't cure) wrap your lil ranger before sending him in...

Seems amazingly irresponsible to hook-up without protecting yourself from every dude she has hooked up with before you... eace
 

Because it is not leaving her to make the decision. What it is is man making the claim that she only is responsible for the pregnancy and that any decision on her part not to get an abortion is on her and nothing to do with him. In fact the claim being made in the op is that it should not be allowed for her to point out that he to has a responsibility.

Your absolutely right that she is the one making the decision. What you are not taking into consideration is that that decision is effected by a man saying he will take no responsibility and that any asking of support will not be met.

We have met half way here, both of us agree that it is the woman who has the right to decide. Where we differ is on what is the mans position here. Is it one where they can abdicate any responsibility and based on nothing more than the effect on a mans income according to the op. Or is it that the man, having failed to give any concern over preventing a pregnancy in the first place, can now abdicate his responsibility just because he does not like the decision that the woman has the right to make.
 

Interesting position for a priest to make that people are to stupid to know better. Which only strengthens my opinion that the other "unless" that you did not mention is that unless a priest commands it be so. It suites the church well and gives priests a living to have a congregation that is to stupid to think for themselves. But that's another argument for another day perhaps.

Tell me how do people know what to do? Unless they are given an education in such things. It should be more than obvious that many an unwanted pregnancy occurs because people do not know what they are doing. Especially in cases of teen pregnancy.
And as i said that when an education and means to protection are provided there is in fact not only less teen pregnancy occurring but less sex occurring between teens.

I will grant you one thing: I don't know if we will ever be able to put the toothpaste back into the tube because we have years of permissiveness to undo and I don't think we're up to it.
And again, possibly a discussion for another time. But your morality on this subject is quite questionable. Trying to continue a rule of abstinence just because it fits an ideology rather than because it actually works is simply just an example of a selfishness that wishes to promote only an ideology rather than any concern for an unwanted baby.
 
Just pay your Child Support and stop whining about your own lack of responsibility. Good Grief:roll:

Is somebody here not paying their child support.?
 
Can anyone have consent over what you do with YOUR body? Your medical care? (assuming you are not a minor or incompetent to make such decisions)

You are really not getting this. The life inside you is not "your body" any longer.
 

Wow, just wow.

Abstinence works every time it's tried. Don't believe me? Try it and see. I have never understood this idiotic argument that "abstinence doesn't work" when it clearly does. The only reason it doesn't work is when you don't do it, and you are the person I am referring to in my first sentence who thinks people are too dull minded to control themselves. An unwanted pregnancy may occur if you don't know what you are doing when you are six years old, but I refuse to believe that even pre-pubescent teenagers don't know where babies come from.


FYI, I made it through my teen years without an unwanted pregnancy by practicing abstinence, but maybe that's why I'm a priest and you're not.
 
Can anyone have consent over what you do with YOUR body? Your medical care? (assuming you are not a minor or incompetent to make such decisions)

How about my shed in the back yard?

If I decide to burn it down, but a helpless person is trapped inside...

It's my shed. I have the right to do with it as I wish.

What about the helpless fetus?
 

Yes, of course he should be able to. The woman can do the exact same thing.
 
I agree, but you cannot force a man to be in the child's life, even if you can force him to pay support.

since this has nothing to do with what I was referring to your strawman argument is well useless.
 
Straw Man. Abortion is alreadyvan accepted legal choice

Swing and miss again ludin... :lol:

nope no strawman at all. she doesn't have to abort if she doesn't want to.
the only stawman is your argument that you think you can just father a ton of kids and have
0 responsibility for it.

worse you think you should hoist that responsibility on the rest of society.
what you don't seem to understand is that we have reject this.

child support compensation has been going on since ancient times.

back then though if you got a women pregnant out of marriage you either had to pay her father compensation or marry her.
now we just ask that you take care of your kids.

why you think you can separate the two is beyond me.

don't want child support? take the steps to prevent it. you have 100% control of whether or not she gets pregnant because
she can't do it without you.
 

You miss the point entirely. Abstinence is ineffective because people do not keep on trying it. What your assuming is that people will always not try it and then on the other hand argue that when it fails it is due to stupidity.

The actual argument you are making is that if people would only remain dull minded and not make decisions for themselves but leave it up to people such priests to command them what to do then abstinence would work. Unfortunately people are not dull minded, they do think for themselves. So your idea of forcing your will upon them is why abstinence does not work.

Do you not understand how a womans body works. Are you under the impression that it is just a simple matter of a man sticking his dick in, wiggle it about and nine months later a baby appears. It is actually more complicated, timing is everything. people can and do have sex without any later issue. There are things such as periods and menstrual cycle and such. The better a woman and man understand these things the less likely a pregnancy. When uneducated about these things then very little care is given about it and pregnancy does happen.

I also got through my teens without causing a pregnancy . But then being aware and educated allowed me to appreciate the gravity of a woman telling me the time is not right or to use a condom.
 
Yes, of course he should be able to. The woman can do the exact same thing.

True the woman can do the same thing. The point here is that the argument given in the op is an attempt to disregard that.

Do you not remember. You agreed that it is the womans right to make the decision. Now having made that decision the man according to the op has the right to disregard the fact that the decision is hers and pretend that it his right to decide whether that that baby should be aborted if it will cost him by having him own up and take responsibility for his own actions.
 

If the mother wants to decide to raise the child by herself than she can do that.
 

If people do not continue to practice abstinence, then they are not practicing abstinence, and of course it won't work.

And please don't lecture me about how sex works, or worse, how the priesthood works.
 

At what point? What if the two willingly engage in sex and both agree come what may happens - then the man changes his mind. Still allowed to opt out?

Birth control also works for men as well - why put the burden of protection on the female?

What if birth control is used but doesn't work?

What if the women is religiously opposed to abortion?

Too many unknowns to be a fair statement IMO.
 
100% accurate



Not accurate - some people support a woman's choice but do not support the action themselves. You can be a supporter of abortion but openly agree to never have one.
 
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